The Cab
Published by Rhea on March 16, 2009
Having been almost a year since last interviewing The Cab on their very first tour, singer Alex Deleon to be exact, The Cab seems to be getting closer to where they are wishing to be. From playing on stages with Panic at the Disco and recently heading out on their 5th tour with We the Kings (Bamboozle Roadshow), The Cab has been getting more recognition than they could ever ask for. They have just had a Bounce Dance Contest on Buzznet, were hinting at a possible headlining tour in the summer, and were talking about writing songs for a new album. Keep your eyes peeled and watch out for The Cab because ready or not, here they come.
SDS: It’s been nearly a year now that I interviewed Alex D. How would you say that you guys have changed since last April?
Cash: As people or as a band?
SDS: Either
Cash: As people we’re still the same, we’re all brothers hanging out in this little van. As a band I feel like we are developing. More and more kids are coming out to the shows. We’re happy, we’re thankful for everything, we’re in the process of writing right now, hopefully trying to pump out a new record as soon as we can and then, that’s about it.
SDS: Whisper War has been out for almost a year now. If you had to estimate, about how many copies have you guys sold?
Cash: I think we hit the 50,000 mark, I think we’re just a little over that, which is cool, just based off of touring and stuff.
SDS: Well congrats
Cash: Thank you so much. This is good enough for us with our first record. We’re proud of what we’ve got like I said, with our next record, you never know.
SDS: You’ve been talking about how you guys have been writing a new album and stuff. Have you guys gotten any complete songs done yet?
Cash: We have a few. Obviously, we have more than a few. It’s probably more done at 20 or 30 right now, but you could write 100 songs for one record. It’s just that we keep writing and when it comes down to the day when they’re like alright it’s time to record guys we’ll just be like which ones do you like, here’s 100, pick a couple.
SDS: Is it the label that picks the songs?
Cash: No, I mean, it’s not like they have a say, but they’re going to speak their opinion. Obviously they’ve been in the business longer than us so when they feel one song is stronger than the other, they’re going to state their opinion about it and we usually agree with it after a talk.
SDS: A while ago, you guys had done music videos for I’ll Run and Bounce. How did you guys come up with the ideas for these videos?
Cash: We had a great group of people working on both videos. The first one, I’ll Run, basically we wanted that vie of more natural keeping faith and all that. I think you get that message from the video. Bounce we just wanted it to be abnormal, I guess you could say We were all dressed in white and then the paint came out of nowhere. I guess that’s what we were going for, but the teams we had for the videos were really good behind us and great working for, it was just awesome.
SDS: What do you do to keep yourselves occupied while on tour?
Cash: Anything possible. If there’s gear to be loaded, I’ll load it, if there’s a drive to do, I’ll drive. You make yourself very ADD and OCD on tour to keep your mind occupied because if not, you’re just going to sit around and be like Okay, I’m bored. Okay, now it’s time to play a show. Okay, now I’m bored again. So you’ve just got to keep active and just find jobs for yourself to do or else you’re just going to turn into a blob
SDS: What is one band, other than yourselves, that you think people should know about?
Cash: Well if they don’t know Something Corporate or Jack’s Mannequin then they just shouldn’t be listening to music.
*Both laugh*
Cash: No, I’m just kidding. I mean, there’s a few friend bands of mine. This band called Play For Keeps out of Vegas and this band Anarbor, I don’t know if you’ve heard of them
SDS: I’m going to see them in March.
Cash: Yeah, they’re amazing, I love them. You’ll see them on Take Action right?
SDS: Yeah, without Cute and without Breathe Carolina.
Cash: Well, when you do see them, all you say is Cash loves you.
SDS: Where do you guys see yourselves in a couple of years?
Cash: Hopefully still around. I don’t want to be one of those bands you hear a song on the radio or you come see and few shows and you’re like What the hell happened to them? Where did they go?. In a couple of years I want people to still know who we are. I’d like to be touring, I’d like to maybe expand and do some other wild and crazy stuff musically. Just playing music, I think that’s every musicians dream.
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